Walmart was a mad-house yesterday! We had gone in to buy a few non-Christmas items, and the place was packed! Finally we made our way to the front of the store only to see long lines at each register. A smiling young woman standing in the aisle told us we could avoid the wait by letting her check us out right there! She had a small device in her hand, and after we agreed to a speedy checkout, she entered the info, bagged our goods and placed them in our cart.
Wondering how we could just walk out with them, I asked,"Where is our receipt?" to which she answered, "On your phone!" I looked and there it was. Technology is changing every day!
It's a new world we live in. Sadly, technology is not all that is changing. Children used to be sent to school by their parents with perfect confidence of their safety and well-being. Now, not so much. An incident at our granddaughter's house bears this out.
Bethany was at home with her children, when out the window she noticed a man on her porch. He knocked, and she stepped out to see what he wanted. It turned out to be an innocuous inquiry about their house, which they had toyed with the idea of selling. She turned to go in, and realized the door was locked. Panicky for a moment, she found a key in the depths of her jeans pocket and went in to the children.
A little voice cried out, "Is the lock-down over?" Her six-year-old son had grabbed his two-year-old brother, ran into the bedroom, locked the door and both hid in the closet! Obviously, they had been doing the drill in his kindergarten class at school! They were taught to hide at a moment's notice for their safety!
What a burden for a little child to bear. Especially for a sensitive little boy like our Jaxon, whose imagination is active enough already! We may be living in a new world of technology, values and morality, but thankfully we can teach the young the same good news of Jesus that has always been, which never grows old!
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